 | Visiting Professor rbwallac@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae [PDF] |
Richard Wallach L’06 joins the College of Law in Spring 2024 as a Visiting Professor. He will teach Legal Communication and Research.
Immediately prior to joining the College of Law, Wallach was in private practice and with the Hiscock Legal Aid Society in Syracuse, NY focusing on immigration law.
From 2006 until 2022, Wallach served as Career Law Clerk to the Honorable Kathleen Cardone of the United States District Court, Western District of Texas. In this role, he provided the Judge with legal and administrative support, including drafting a wide variety of court documents, providing legal advice, and supervising the Judge’s term law clerks. Prior to his clerkship with Judge Cardone, Wallach served as a summer law clerk to the Honorable Rosemary Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Prior to his legal career, Wallach served in various management and marketing roles at FAME Information Services, a technology and information company whose products were widely used among financial services companies and government agencies around the globe.
Wallach earned a J.D. in 2006 from Syracuse University College of Law, as well as an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and a B.A. in Economics from Haverford College. He also attended The Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan, for the intensive study of Mandarin Chinese.
While a student at the College of Law, he was the Managing Editor of Syracuse Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Justinian Honor Society.
He is admitted to the New York State Bar.